The funny thing I haven't seen people really talk about is that Rick and Morty is, for better or for worse, 100% a modernization of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Everything people don't like about it is what they wouldn't like about Douglas Adams if he were new
I don't think gallows humor has ever gone out of style, I mean the nukes are still there, plus a million other problems
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But yeah more people should be aware of Adams' short story Young Zaphod Plays it Safe that's just a direct attack on Reagan
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The funniest part about that story is that when Adams rewrote it to be ‘less offensive’ by removing the explicit reference to Reagan, the story sounds like it’s talking about Jesus Christ Which is funnier in a crosses-the-line-twice way than Reagan, but misses the satirical point
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The nukes aren’t there like when I was a kid in the 80’s. We had Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island and Reagan. Being nuked seemed like a real possibility.
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Nuclear power plant malfunctions aren't the same issue as nuclear weapons and I honestly think anti-nuclear fear has really screwed us over when it comes to climate change
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